Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is often accompanied with swallows like Eba.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Make ready 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
- Take 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
- Get 1 bowl Iced fish
- Get Small bowl of stockfish
- Get Bowl kpomo (ganda)
- Prepare 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
- Prepare 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
- Get 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
- Get Handful Uziza leaves
- Prepare 1 bowl red oil
- Get Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
- Prepare Oil to fry fish
- Prepare Seasoning
Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient.
Instructions to make Egusi soup:
- I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading…..
- ……. Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
- In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
- Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
- Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
- Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
- Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
- Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
- Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
- Then….
- You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀
Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient. Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. Egusi soup is common and prevalent across Central Africa, and may be served atop rice. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
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